Execution of Louis XVI

Illustration

Harrison W. Mark
by Isidore Stanislas Helman
published on 02 September 2022
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Engraving depicting the execution of King Louis XVI of France by guillotine on 21 January 1793, in the Place de la Revolution, Paris. The executioner displays his severed head to the crowd. Engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman, after Charles Monnet, 1794.

Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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